Year: 1990
Type: preprint
Abstract: ABSTRACI'Of th~ O.75m tonnes of .grainprodUcedincentral Queensland .eachyear on average, O~ m tonnes are whe.at.Thi$.can comprise as many as .six differen.tdasses,irom.'Prime Herd' throuft to '~eedJ. .The paper addresses the question of how expensive it is to provide the handling seroces necessary to keep these classes separate.. Existing facilities were taken as Pett and a system wideappro;:ch adopted.The estimated reduction .invariablecostsifwheat were.handled and.storedastho~ 1here was only one class wa.ca.bJlatecLAn'l :savingsidentifi~ would therefore be the V&riab1e .COI)ts .inproviding thesegreption $eIVices~ lhe component of annual variable costs attributable to providing the current level of :segtegationwas estimated at $50)000.11m was out of a .totalvariables costs budget for central Queensland of $3~,m~ It. appeared that, without segregation, depQt, manning levels wowdlargelybc unaltered and also that the intake rate would not be greatl,y altered~ The imp1icationsare that the extra COSts of segreption in.Central Queensland.arelow.This result has particular value in deciding tbebandling charge:» for wheat relative to 'theothcrgrains such as sorghum..
Authors: Gaffney, J., Sondergeld, L., Gaffney, J., Sondergeld, L.
Language: English
Subfield: Forestry
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W596153757